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UNITED 'STAIEs' PATENT MARI ANNLMEAD, 0F AURORA, INDIANA,ADMINISTRA'TRIX 0F ons.; AMis-AID; DncEAsED.

IMPROVEMENT IN PACKING AND' PAR-ESSlN-G-'COTTON Specification formingpart ofLetim's Patent Nm. dated ngust 14, 18,47..

To /tZ when?, it may concern.-

Be it known that JAMES MEADE, of Aurora, i n the county ol'Dcarborn andState of Indiana,

* did invent a new and useful Machine for Press? Fig. 2 is- -at once.-

aisa wooden box to receive andtransmit the cotton, and is attachedtoaframe, b.' Thisv frame carries two shafts, c Il, bearing disks e,which revolve with them; The shaft c can be slid to and fro bythe rack'fand pinion g, the

rack having a lug, h, working in a collar, i, in the shaft. j A j isacatchvto hold the shaft to .its work.

A'spindle,k, with square extremities fits into corresponding sockets inthedisks;'but' can be` withdrawn by shifting the shaftc back. This rodor spindle is tapered to facilitate its withdrawl from the bale. Theshaft d has a pnl' ley, l', connected by 'strap with another pulley, f

m, where the motive power is applied; n is a table resting on pivots oto the sides of the box. Its baekendisheaviest,

and itis furnished at the front end witl'ra strong spring, p5-extendingits Whole width' and pressing the under sident the rod 'k'. A.

heavy roller, (j, working in slides I", creates a pressure on the otherside of the rod orspiulc.

There' is alid,s, to tlie box-having attachedto its inner end, a plateof iron; i, which, bears af=,1"a.inst vthe roller and keeps thecotton,.if1`-om ying ont.

Operation: Having inserted the rod or spin! dlein the disks and` securedthe shaft c to its,

Lplace, set the maehine'in motion, "and either supply the cotton by handor place the box so as .toreceive it from the gin. The rod, inv

revolving, will gather the cotton around itunde'r pressure from theroller and table, and thus '.form a bale Avot great and uniform.density,

which,when-as1arge as required, is taken out by shifting back the fshaftc.- .The rod is then drawn and, being reinstated-in the machine, isready for another bale. .A

What I'elaim therein as new, and desire ,to secure by 'LettersPatent isThe'within-described apparatus for forming fa bale of cotton underpressure on a spindle oi revolving rod; but I do not intend bythsspecification t0 limitmyself to the precise arrangement hereindescribed,'so long as I attain the same-end by .equivalent means; for

instance, the pressure of the -roll'er may be -i-ncreased by the aidof.levers, or the hydraulic cylinder, and gearing or a pair of conical pnlleys may be appliedto adapt the po'wer to the .increased size of 'thebale, Src.; also, thel may be of several pieces, to facilitate itswithdrawal, and an endless apron-may be applied to 'the table,

MARY. MEAD; [ne] l Attest:

J. L. CAMPBELL, WILLIAM T. HARRIS.

